Combination code-card.



P. HOFFMAN. COMBINATION CODE CARD. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1969.

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DRAWER I Q a a g g; 5 fi 5 5 2 a: S 0 3 2* F" i 2 xqa W a Q (I T 4 J 1 2 1 s amwms SIGNAT RE Q 2 g T) q 5 M N g 5 OUNTER-SIGN 0F DRA wan g 2' v 7 g O 5 Q o g 5 5 "n 5 W Col/Iv rm-s/an/ 0/ PA fil L WITNESSES: IN VEN TOR By 274., MW, 71. v ATTORNEY k STT FRED HOFFMAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL CASH PROTECTOR, COMPANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF IZONA.

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Specification of Letters Eatent. Patented Aug. 12, 11913.

Application filed September 2, 1909. Serial No. 515,900.

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED HOFFMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination placed over said identification card, numerv als will appear therethrough corresponding to the amount to be paid and to the countersign numbers of the drawer and payee.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view showing the identification card in use for identifying a check; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the card'detached.

Referring to-the drawing, 1 indicates an identification card having printed thereon a line 2 for the signature of the drawer, a countersign number 3 of the drawer, a countersign number 4: of the payee and a combination code 5. This code comprises a number of rows, seven being here shown, each containing all ofthe ten digits 6, ar-

ranged irregularly or out of numerical order in all of the rows.

In use, a check, shown at 7, is prepared for identification by forming a number of perforations therein comprising a row 8 of said perforations, which, when placed over the first row of the combination code will show the countersign number of the drawer, as 306 a bottom row 9 of perforations, which, when placed over the bottom row of the combination code willshow the numbers showing the counterslgnof the payee, as 352, and a series of single perforations variously arranged, which, when placed over the combination code, will show the numbers corresponding respectively to the tens of thou sands, thousands, hundreds, tens and units, in the number of vdollars for which the check is drawn. The drawing shows the numbers as being 5, 3, 1, 7, corresponding to the amount, $5,317.00.

][ claim:- a

A device for identifying names and other data of checks and the like, comprising a' sheet having printed thereon rows and columns of figures, each row comprising the ten digits, arr-an ed in a fortuitous manner in the several cod thereon a number, and means for indicating that said'number is a countersign, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, FRED HOFFMAN.

- Witnesses J. M. DAY, S. 'REYNOLDS.

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